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bbpress has a number of templates which you can alter
these are found in
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress
Start with
content-archive-forum.php
this is the index page.
you will see that it calls other templates
eg
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'forums' ); ?>
which calls loop-forums.php
a look through and you should be able to work out what most of it is doing.
If you want to alter any of these, make a new directory in the root of your theme and copy any of these template files to it (only the ones you want to alter)
so for instance if you wanted to alter content-archive-forum.php you’d create a copy to get
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php
you can then alter these copies, and bbpress will use them instead
They will also show you what css is being used, so that you can amend your style.css file with those that you want to change, or you can copy the whole bbpress style file viz https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/#5-copyingcreating-a-bbpress-stylesheet-in-your-child-theme
at the finer level you may need to use something like firebug to work out how to say ‘bold’ the forums names to see what css each part is using, so that you can alter it.
Firebug is downloaded to go with the Firefox browser. There are loads of firebug tutorials eg see
